3BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF GDSA'S ACTIVITIES FOR FOREIGN PEOPLE* As Turkey is located on several migration routes and has an increasing foreign population, in the last decades it has gained many experiences about meeting foreigners’ needs.* GDSA implies several social assisstance programmes to needy foreigners as well as needy Turkish citizens without any discrimination, based on the Law 3294.* These social assistance programmes are implied to foreign people who have registration id number start with '99' or '98'.

4BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF GDSA'S ACTIVITIES FOR FOREIGN PEOPLE* Within this framework, Social Assistance and Solidarity Foundations founded in every province and sub-provinces in Turkey, have made it possible to handle with the issue.* The key factor of those foundations are that they are local foundations. Because they are everywhere in Turkey it becomes easy and fast to find needy people and understand their needs locally.

8Her il ve ilçede kurulmuştur Founded in every province and sub-provinces (1.000)Karar organı Mütevelli HeyetleriDecision body is the ‘Board of Trustees’.Mütevelli Heyetinin başkanı Kaymakam/ ValiThe head of the Board of Trustees is the administrative chief.Kanunun amaçları doğrultusunda nakdi ve ayni yardım sağlanırProvide cash and in-kind assistances in accordance with the aim of the law.8

11THE LEGAL BASISAccording to law no.3294, the term of “people who are living in poverty” broadly described as the Turkish citizens/households or resided foreigners/households who have no social security from any formal institution, who are not receiving any regular pension from these formal institutions and the people could become useful and productive for the society if any monetary or educational support is being provided. Or people having social security from any formal institutions, and receiving any regular pension from these formal institutions but living in a household in which the monthly income or expenditure per capita is under 104 USD.

12Bu kanuni dayanak çerçevesinde sosyal yardım bağlamında Türkiye’deki yabancılar iki grupta değerlendirilebilir;Foreign people in Turkey can be evaluated in two groups in the context of social assistances within the framework of this legal basis ;Yabancı kimlik numarası olan yabacılar (99)The foreign people who have foreign identity numberGeçici tanıtım belgesi olan yabancılar (98)The foreign people who have temporary identification label.

17CHALLENGES & SOLUTIONSLanguageThe first challange that foundations face is language problem.To cope with this handicap, foundations have started to employ qualified people according to specific needs of the regions of Turkey.For example, near the border of Syria, Arabian speaking staff have been preferred.

18CHALLENGES & SOLUTIONSRegistration issueSecondly, the registration issue was a big challenge for the foundations because it was not possible to follow and control the number of people and the assisstances given.So that, foundations and police departments worked in coordination to make fast the registration process.

19CHALLENGES & SOLUTIONSFinancial SourceAs in all situations, the main challange is of course the financial source. However the budget of our Fund is determined before each budget period and consists of certain fixed income such as 50% of traffic fine payments, with the increasing needy population there is a pressure on the financial source.To overcome this pressure, we seriously care about the strategic plan. We study on our targetting mechanisms on the basis of objective criterias.

20THE LESSONS LEARNTThe main lesson we learnt that this issue requires a well-organised coordination. It is impossible to neglect the contributions of many public institutions and non-governmental organisations in Turkey in the context of this implementation.From our point of view for example, we had to arrange a lot of meetings with some departments of other Ministries (especially with the Ministry of Interior Directorate General of Migration Management) and the policies of Ministries about this issue were shaped through these contacts.And the biggest gain for us is the fast and reliable registration process which allows foundations to present effective and fast assistances

21THE LESSONS LEARNTAnother lesson we learnt that language is one of the most important issues which has to be solved quickly and in some regions it became one of the conditions of recruitment.Furthermore, we learnt that the foreign people in our country may need different services. In general, almost all foreing people benefit from similar assistances.

22THE LESSONS LEARNTBesides, in the areas which has high child population, education projects have been started; in the areas which has high number of old or ill pepople, soup-kitchen services are presented for them.

23THE LESSONS LEARNTAnd from all these, we have seen the poverty map of these people through ISASIS (Integrated Social Assistance Services Information System). We are able to see the all mobilities from ISASIS and we plan our strategies on based on these information.